Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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Don't imitate the fly before you have wings. ~French Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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A cat goes to a monastery, but she still remains a cat. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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A guest should be blind in another man's house. ~Irish Proverb
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Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. ~Allison Scagliotti
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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Lend your money and lose your friend. ~English Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Last night the Moon asked me, ""Why do not you leave your love if she makes you cry?" I looked back at the Moon and replied, "You are so lonely up there by can you leave your Sky?"
#message #cute #goodnight

I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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